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BOB PICKARD

PRINCIPAL, SIGNAL LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION INC

Having built award-winning Public Relations businesses based in the United States,
Japan, Korea, Singapore and Canada – and with one of the largest social media communities
in the PR world – Bob, is a respected leader in the international communications
industry. He was listed in 2015 as the only Canadian in PR Week’s ‘Global Power
Book’ of the most influential international public relations executives. Bob has
more than two decades of experience focused on providing PR counsel and creating
communications campaigns for senior business leaders in North America and Asia Pacific.
Based at Toronto, he is co-founder and Principal of Signal Leadership Communication
Inc. (SLC), Bob is also an expert in global public relations for Western companies
communicating in Asia, and Asian companies communicating internationally.

He served Burson-Marsteller as its Asia-Pacific CEO where, for three years until
2013, he led and expanded a 38 office network of owned and affiliate operations
across 16 regional markets with more than 1,000 employees.